The moonlight is like daylight, projected in through the carved window lattice, and reflected on Xia Qiu's face. She felt as if something had hit her hard on the back of her head, and there were bursts of pain. He opened his eyes drowsily and found that his hands and feet were tied up and he was curled up around the chairs where Blue Snake Xizhen had entertained them before.
She remembered that she, Ouyang Xiaoleng, Qianqi and the others followed Blue Snake Xizhen into the catacombs in order to find the array elements that existed in Mucheng in the Qi Lie Array, which was the coffin belonging to Blue Snake Xizhen. . But when Ouyang Xiaoleng suggested that the coffin should be destroyed, Blue Snake Xizhen suddenly changed from normal. Immediately afterwards, a sudden strange wind raised the white sand on the ground, and then she lost consciousness.
She looked around. There was no one in the room, and she didn't see any of her companions. Why was she the only one left here? Who was the person who attacked them? She was filled with questions, but the first problem was that she needed to break free from the ropes that bound her.
She tried to break free a few times, but apart from being painfully strangled, the ropes that tightly bound her hands and feet showed no signs of loosening. Just when she was at a loss, she suddenly felt someone walking in. She immediately closed her eyes and pretended to be still in a coma.
"Hey!" a strange voice said to her.
She mustered up the courage to open her eyes, and saw a pair of dark green pupils just a few centimeters in front of her. It was a man dressed in white, with a pair of bright eyes like two pools of autumn water under his eyebrows, looking elegant and gentle. If it weren't for his excessive paleness, he would really look like a man like a full moon.
He reached out and summoned a long dagger, carefully cut off the ropes tied to Xia Qiu's hands and feet, and then said to her: "You must stop Xizhen! She only agreed to Qingyun's conditions in order to save me, and I What’s the point of relying on her to sell her soul to extend my life?! But she can’t listen to my advice, so I beg you to stop her!”
His words made Xia Qiu a little confused, but according to what he said, Lan Snake Xizhen had indeed taken refuge in Qingyun, but it seemed that she was forced to do so, so she asked: "Who are you?"
"My name is Cang Emperor. I am the white oak tree that you saw growing in the center of the city before. I am also Xizhen's lover. She and I have been with each other for more than four thousand years." Cang Emperor replied as he moved Xia Qiu from Help him up from the ground.
Xia Qiu suddenly remembered that when they saw the white oak tree, it was already on the verge of death, and asked again: "Is it because of the acid rain in their mouths that made you like this?"
Emperor Cang replied with sadness in his eyes: "Exactly, the poison I had been poisoned has penetrated deep into my bones, but Qingyun told Xizhen that he had a way to detoxify it, and then she agreed to let Mucheng become a link in the Qi Lie Formation."
"How despicable!"
Xia Qiu remembered that Ouyang Hongye had told her before about how the lord of Nanzhe City was deceived by Qingyun, which led to the destruction of the entire Nanzhe City. She couldn't help but guess that this acid rain was most likely caused by Qingyun. He came to blackmail Xizhen, the blue snake, into betraying the demon world and becoming his pawn.
"Your companions are trapped in the labyrinth created by Xizhen in the catacombs. Their lives are in danger. Because you are human, she did not want to kill you. Go and save them now!" Emperor Cang finished. Then disappeared without a trace.
While Xia Qiu was recalling the path that Blue Snake Xizhen had led them to, Xia Qiu came to the stone wall in the courtyard at the back, and successfully found a spot on the stone wall at a 45-degree angle above the white oak tree and drew a circle. In the shape of a moon, the stone wall indeed slid to one side, revealing the entrance to the catacombs.
When walking alone in the circular tunnel, she could always hear some noises, like the muffled sound of heavy objects falling to the ground, the low cries of women, and the howls of wild beasts. These sounds echoed around her, making the already dark tunnel seem even more terrifying. When she finally walked to the open area, she found that it was still the pure white world, and there was no trace of Ouyang Xiaoleng and the others. Did Emperor Cang lie to her? Or did she fail to enter the maze created by Blue Snake Xizhen
She walked up to the coffin and pushed open the lid with all her strength. There is no bottom visible inside the coffin, but a black hole leading to an unknown world. She leaned down and looked down, only to find that the hole was bottomless, but she did not hesitate and mustered up the courage to climb into the coffin.
Falling, falling continuously, Xia Qiu felt that her body became extremely heavy in this space, and she fell to the ground at an extremely fast speed with her face facing the purple sky. When passing through the clouds, it seemed to be buffered and slowed down slightly, but soon began to continue falling at a faster speed.
"Ah..." She shouted loudly and stretched her hands to the sky, trying to catch something.
Just when she thought she would be thrown to pieces, she was caught firmly by a rushing force, which took her flying into the air again. She lowered her head and saw that it was a huge white dragon. The white dragon was carrying her and flying at high speed in the air, as if it was avoiding something.
Before she could react, an equally huge blue snake followed. The white dragon couldn't dodge and was hit hard by the blue snake. As a result, it lost its balance and fell to the side, making Xia Qiu almost slip from it. Go down. Just as the white dragon regained its balance, the blue snake chased it again and was about to hit it again.
"Grab my dragon horns and sit tight!" Bailong shouted to Xia Qiu on his back, but it was Qianqi's voice.
At this time, an unusually beautiful peacock suddenly rushed over and passed by the blue snake. At the same time, it scratched the blue snake's head with its sharp claws. This might have hurt the blue snake's eyes. It groaned and slowed down its pursuit of Xia Qiu and Bai Long.
They also took the opportunity to escape to the ground. After the white dragon landed next to a white fox, he lowered his body and let Xia Qiu get off its back.
"Fortunately, I caught her!" Bailong said.
"Are you Qianqi?" Xia Qiu asked breathlessly. She was still a little shocked and could even hear her own rapid heartbeat.
"Yeah, seeing you like this is really a bit..." Bailong replied with a wink.
"We are now in the labyrinth created by Blue Snake Xizhen. It is said to be a labyrinth but it is already big enough to be called a world." As soon as the white fox next to him opened his mouth, Xia Qiu recognized Ouyang Xiaoleng and he continued to explain. Said, "The law of the world she created is that all monsters in this world will only exist in their own form, so we can no longer maintain human form."
"Haha, even that monster that is neither yin nor yang has shown its true form!" Bailong joked on the side.
The peacock that had helped Bai Long before also landed, raised its proud head, glanced at Bai Long contemptuously, and shouted: "Stupid dragon, if I hadn't stopped that blue snake just now, you would have killed your beloved long ago. This ugly girl fell to death! Why don’t you thank me?!”
Since he could not maintain his human form, Ling Yu could no longer conceal his identity as a man. He had just told the truth to Ouyang Xiaoleng and Qian Qi.
Xia Qiu suddenly remembered Qingyun's hiding place in Chilemir Underground City last time. She had used Hunli to find the exit of the maze created by Rakshasa Mother, so she asked: "Can I use Hunli like last time?" How about looking for an exit?"
"It's useless. The passage connecting this world to the real world is the Blue Snake Xizhen herself. She doesn't hesitate to use herself as the exit of the labyrinth to prevent us from destroying the coffin. That means we can't destroy the coffin unless we kill her. Get out of here!" Even if he turned back into a white fox, Ouyang Xiaoleng still had the same expressionless face.
"She did this to save Emperor Cang!" Xia Qiu responded.
"Who is Emperor Cang?" Ouyang Xiaoleng and Qianqi asked in unison.
Xia Qiu replied: "It's the white oak tree in the center of the city. It was he who let me go and asked me to come to you to stop Xizhen, the blue snake. They were lovers who had been together for four thousand years, but he was struck by acid rain. Poison, her life was in danger, Qingyun took this opportunity to appear and forced her to agree to help him on the condition of rescuing Cang Emperor."
"This devil!" Ouyang Xiaoleng's teeth clenched together in anger, making a sound.
"Stop chatting away, she has recovered!" Ling Yu reminded.
They looked up and saw the blue snake rushing towards them.
"Get out of the way!"
Ouyang Xiaoleng shouted, and everyone quickly hid on both sides after hearing the sound. The giant blue snake hit the ground hard. She had lost her mind and therefore no longer felt pain. She straightened up the front half of her body and shook her head, ready to launch the next attack.
Although Ouyang Xiaoleng's body is a huge white fox, it is still far from the size of the blue snake, and the same is true for Lingyu's body.
The only person in this space who can compete with Blue Snake in size is Qianqi. Transformed into a white dragon, he was surrounded by amber demonic whirlpools. The scales on his body shone in the sun. The dragon horns on his head and the dragon whiskers on both sides of his cheeks were majestic, just like the legendary beasts. . He stood in front of everyone, preparing to meet the Blue Snake's challenge alone. The demonic powers of the two giant beasts collided with each other, and fire was produced from the friction.
Xia Qiu remembered Cang Emperor's instructions and shouted loudly to the giant blue snake: "Xizhen, stop! Cang Emperor asked us to stop you from helping Qingyun. He doesn't want you to sell your soul to prolong his life!" "
Blue Snake seemed to have listened to her words, and hesitated for a while, but still made up her mind to fight them to the death. She said: "One wrong step, one wrong step, and now I have no way out! I must let Emperor Cang live. I owe him!"
"There is no need to persuade her anymore. Since she has surrendered to Qingyun, she is our enemy! I have never heard of a dragon losing to a snake, so let me compete with her!"
Bailong turned around and said something to Xia Qiu before rushing forward and entangled with the blue snake. He was not afraid of the venomous fangs of Blue Snake Xizhen, because the dragon blood in his body should be able to automatically neutralize her snake venom, and he should not be inferior to her in terms of strength. He was originally full of confidence in himself. But the only thing he ignored was that Lan Snake Xizhen's training time and actual combat experience were far out of his reach.
During the fight, the blue snake suddenly flew into the sky with the white dragon. Before it could react, it was carried to the ground again. Then the blue snake relied on its own body's tenacity to land on the white dragon's belly. The impact was so powerful that Qian Qi felt that his whole body was about to be shattered to pieces. A heartbreaking pain spread from his abdomen, and a mouthful of dragon blood spurted out from his mouth.
"Qianqi!"
Xia Qiu summoned the plum blade and ran towards the direction where the white dragon fell with Ouyang Xiaoleng and Lingyu, but the blue snake turned around and intercepted them.
"Xia Qiu, go check on Qian Qi!"
Ouyang Xiaoleng said as he pounced on the blue snake. He and Lingyu cooperated with each other to attack the east and the west. Ling Yu is responsible for diverting Blue Snake's attention, and then Ouyang Xiaolen attacks. In the blink of an eye, silver, blue and colorful cyclones of demonic power were entangled around their bodies.
Although the white fox transformed by Ouyang Xiaoleng and the peacock transformed by Ling Yu had successfully cooperated in the previous few times, because the blue snake was so huge and protected by snake scales, the white fox's attack did not cause much trauma to her. Soon, when he and the peacock became exhausted from the constant attacks, the blue snake regained control of the rhythm of the battle, and its fangs almost hurt the white fox and the peacock several times.
This is really an embarrassing battle, maybe because the size difference is too big, maybe because the demon power and actual combat ability are not as good as the opponent, but the bigger reason may be that the blue snake would rather fall into the trap to save his lover Cang Emperor. The determination of darkness.